A dictionary is a list of words and their meanings. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... For other uses, see Dictionary (disambiguation). ...
Dictionary may also refer to: Biographical dictionaries â a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information â have been written in many languages. ... An associative array (also map, hash, dictionary, finite map, lookup table, and in query-processing an index or index file) is an abstract data type composed of a collection of keys and a collection of values, where each key is associated with one value. ... In computer science, the set is a collection of certain values without any particular order. ... Dictionary is an application introduced with Mac OS X v10. ...
Data dictionary, a set of metadata that contains definitions and representations of data elements (a read-only set of database tables and database views)
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A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages.
Dictionaries have had a variety of means of expressing the means of pronouncing words in those languages that are not entirely phonetic.
One of the earliest dictionaries known, and which is still extant today in an abridged form, was written in Latin during the reign of the emperor Augustus.